night; at least one such nest, when examined, revealed but a single cause of complaint, "We families as sleep in the corners, sir, get on very well, but the gemman as has the middle of the room has inconvenienced us by taking a lodger." When the factory bill deprived the children of work, it did not give them play, and it consequently left them no alternative but mischief. Efforts have been made in some places to correct this error of blundering humanity; but the evil is general, and so must the remedy be, or it will be wholly ineffectual. Now there happens to be just at this moment a great amount of mock and of genuine philanthropy going astray in the world. We propose, as a test to distinguish the real from the counterfeit, asking each of the professors of humanity how far they are willing to contribute to the amusements of the people; for they are demonstrably among the essential elements of human happiness. It is not enough to relieve physical want, it is also necessary to satisfy moral craving; sympathy must be superadded to generosity; you must increase the joys as well as relieve the sorrows. The good Samaritan pours not only oil but wine into the wounds of suffering humanity; the priest and Levite pass by on the other side."

LETTER 1.

"Why hath a man two eyes? Truly that he may see with the one, while the other winks."

How true is the saying that the junks of the Barbarians have no eyes, and, therefore, see not. For many years have they been carrying on an illicit trade, and, emboldened by impunity, have fearlessly spread their sails, and pushed on in their wicked course, throwing overboard the compass of Prudence, and placing their helms in the hands of Indiscretion. The consequence is, they have run upon a shoal, and are likely to founder, and no mistake! Like many more of my brothers who suffered by their black iniquity, I was tempted to indulge in secretly smoking the forbidden drug, but the edict of the Brother of the Moon has opened my drooping eyelids, and let in the day-light of truth. Yes! I have indignantly cast away my pipe- for there is no longer any opium to supply it!

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roast, but he hath no knife! What ridiculous contention is - bright ray of the Emperor (which is LIN) against the darkess of this starless night (which is Elliott)!-an imperial gong to an infant tom-tom! In the mean time, the trouble of the peaceful and well dered inhabitants of Xantung is great; they fear the rashness into which his folly may lead him, and with anxious eyes they follow his movements, well knowing that they shall be compelled to resist ny outbreak, and reasonably fearing they may suffer; for when e bowl striketh another, one or both are likely to be cracked by the collision!

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The eyeless junks of the more blind Barbarians are all seized; and there is, consequently, such a dust raised in Xantung that the glorious rays of the sun himself can hardly penetrate it. They loudly declare that they were led into this awful crime against the wellbeing of the subjects of the Celestial Empire at the instigation, and by the facilities offered to the illegal traffic by the officers in power. Miserable Barbarians! to endeavour to palliate their own misdemeanours by casting reflections upon the integrity of our officials; who, if they did sometimes wink, was it not occasioned by the somniferous merchandize these barbarians brought into port? Dare they accuse the honest men of taking a bribe? Never! unless, indeed it were of such a weight that it completely bore down all human opposition. For, as the poet saith, "are not all men's good and evil actions like a pair of scales," wherein a weight being cast by malice, maketh the good rise, and the evil preponderate, and vice versa? for what mortal can struggle against the decrees of Fate? It appears to my simple mind, too, perfectly correct that they should squeeze the Barbarians: nay, morally just that they should levy contributions on them as a fine for their wickedness! Nay, is not evil frequently done that good may come of it? Doth not my beloved LEW-SHE herself, the most careful of wives, waste cheese in making toasted baits for the mice, that she may thereby destroy the destroyers? And, is not this small sinfulness of waste outweighed by the great good of saving? And yet - would you believe it? they kick. Now, can anything be a greater proof of folly than for men to kick who have not a leg to stand on?-ridiculous!

"Be composed, though the waves roll upwards to the sky, there is a middle course; pursue it, and your bark will glide gently on! "

EVERY virtue under the sun flourishes and ripens in the Celestial Empire.

Surely the present bobbery with these white-headed Barbarians will serve our literati for a new volume of the KwE-KOO KE